Music of the Sea Symposium   -
Presented by Mystic Seaport, The University of Connecticut and the United States Coast Guard Academy

Schedule of Events - June 11 – 12, 2010



Friday, June 11, UCONN, Avery Point, Marine Science Building

9:00 Coffee and Danish

9:20 Welcome, Morning Moderator, Glenn S. Gordinier

9:30 Jerry Bryant, "Long We've Toiled on the Rolling Wave: One Sea Song's Journey from the Gun Deck to Hollywood"

10:15 April Grant, "TERRIBLE POLLY: The Battle of the Sexes in Gale Huntington's "Songs the Whalemen Sang"

11:00 – Coffee and Danish

11:15 Tim Radford, "Maritime Songs and Singers Collected in Hampshire, England by Dr. George Gardiner, 1905-1909"

Lunch

1:30 Reconvene, Afternoon Moderator, Mary K Bercaw Edwards

Tim Prchal "The Currents of the Soul': The Atlantic Reflected in 19th-century American Immigration Songs"

2:15 Bob Walser "Dreg Songs: A Scots Oyster Fishing Tradition: Oyster Dredging Songs of the Firth of Forth"



Saturday, June 12, Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church

9:30 Welcome, Moderator, Glenn S. Gordinier

Stephen D. Winick, "Richard Doerflinger, Patrick Tayluer and the Other Leaving of Liverpool"

10:45 Stuart M. Frank, Ballads and Songs of the American Sailor